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+# Workshop 2: Getting Started with Python
+
+This is the second in a series of scientific Python lectures at Risø campus,
+Denmark Technical University.
+
+## Objective
+
+To introduce new Python users to Anaconda workflows. We assume that the majority
+of users are familiar with Matlab and/or Mathematica.
+
+## Date
+
+The workshop date and location will be announced internally at DTU Risø. Please
+use the contact information below for questions on the workshop contents or 
+arranging a new workshop.
+
+## Topic outline
+
+- What is Anaconda?
+- Anaconda prompt
+- Command-line Python
+- Python vs. iPython console
+- Installing new packages
+- Creating and managing environments
+- Spyder
+- Jupyter
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+If you are attending the workshop, please do the following before attending:
+1. If you do not have Anaconda installed, please [install it](https://www.anaconda.com/download/)
+**with Python 3.6**
+2. If you have Anaconda installed, please either  
+    a) have your root environment be Python 3.6, or  
+    b) [create an environment](https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html#creating-an-environment-with-commands)
+    that has Python 3.6
+
+## Contact
+
+Jenni Rinker
+rink@dtu.dk
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